We did pumpkins last night. Landon has been looking forward to this for weeks, so he was super pumped that it was finally the actual day of pumpkin carving...well, night. The only problem was that I waited so long that the pumpkins had already started to get a little squishy. So there were not as many guts (squishy pumpkin parts, whatever you wanna call them) as Landon would have liked. But he still had a blast digging into the pumpkins with his dad. Landon wanted a witch face on his?, but Jon said he didn't know how to do that, so he sketched something on paper, showed it to Landon, Landon got all excited about how scary it was and viola...we had a scary pumpkin. I chose the classic happy face, which neither of my men understood. I told Landon that if he ever has a sister she will probably want a princess pumpkin...he said that was ridiculous. Ah well...
Noah wanted nothing to do with the pumpkins. In fact, he was a little afraid of the guts. So I gave him a popcicle and put him in the high chair. He was a happy camper. I made pumpkin chocolate chip bread, the boys carved away and Noah ate. It was a beautiful evening. In keeping with tradition, pictures are included at the bottom of the post....and I even put a picture from last year on here so that you can see the difference. Wow...how children change from year to year!!!
Tonight is the actual trick-or-treat event and my boys (well one of them anyway) are beside themselves. Boston Market is offering free dinners to kids in costumes...so since that is the favored restaurant among both boys, we will be dining there tonight. Yeah! Then off to darth-vader land (Landon) with monkey boy (Noah).
Tomorrow Jon and I leave at 6:45 am for a two day getaway. His company is taking us on the annual Chicago trip. They pay for the train, the hotel and dinner as well as the comedy club (which we are not attending due to the extreme blasphemy we were exposed to the first time they took us there). We are so excited to have a couple of days to ourselves...I can't remember the last date we went on....and the fact that it is mostly free makes it all even better!
I have had lots of random things to share...but it will have to wait. Maybe next week? Happy birthday Marla, Jamie and Sharon! Wow...three birthdays on the same day, and a holiday nonetheless. Crazy....must be something in the air, or a full moon...or something 
Happy Halloween friends!
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